Canadian Painters
Kelly Grace is an artist I’ve featured before (here) but there’s more to learn about her this time around. She was surrounded by creative influences growing up north of Toronto. Her paternal grandparents were traveling puppeteers in California in the 1950s, and her grandfather was also a clown […]
Laara Cassells, a painter, sculptor and one-time costume and theatre set designer, found inspiration for her current exhibition while teaching an art history class. She creates double portraits by pairing a copy of a historical painting with contemporary subjects wearing headphones, or holding phones or computers.
In a way, what happened to Toronto painter Rob Croxford a year ago was a gift. Last May, he lost everything in a fire at Walnut Studios, a huge, warehouse-style quarters for artists where he created his vintage-inspired acrylics and prints.
Elaine Rakowski’s large-scale landscape paintings and corresponding studies were inspired by the wind-swept beauty and visual splendour of the Torres del Paine in Patagonia, Chile.
Montreal artist Catherine Bolduc is on exhibition at Galerie d’Este through May 5. She is a multi-faceted artist who sculpts, draws, paints and also creates memorable public art.
Shaun Downey’s works have elements of decades past, but are firmly grounded in present day. He often paints his wife and friends and – as Galerie de Bellefeuille puts it – “we are allowed a voyeuristic glance into his world as he reveals his efforts to capture the […]
